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R. D. Laing
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unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist
OverviewAI-generated
R. D. Laing was a Scottish male author and public figure. Born on October 7, 1927, he died on August 23, 1989. His literary output includes works such as *The politics of experience* and *Intervention in social situations*. Other titles associated with his name include *Ḳolah shel ha-ḥaṿayah*, *הטרוף*, *שפיות הדעת והמשפחה*, and *レイン わが 半生*.
Laing’s writings have been referenced by 622 other encyclopedia articles. A quote attributed to him states that alienation as a present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1927
- Died
- 1989
- Works
- 91
Top works
- Ḳolah shel ha-ḥaṿayah
- The politics of experience
- הטרוף, שפיות הדעת והמשפחה
- レイン わが 半生
- Intervention in social situations
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Scotland
- Active from
- 1927-10-07
- Active to
- 1989-08-23
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18
- Total plays
- 167
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- 2010 Rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: An American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative
· 2010 · cited 7,612x
- Mutations in Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene are associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
· 1993 · cited 5,521x
- First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole
· 2019 · cited 3,656x
- 2010 Rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: an American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative
· 2010 · cited 3,478x
- First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way
· 2022 · cited 1,749x
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Quotes
- “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”
- “Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.”
- “I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. All men are invisible to one another. Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything. Only experience is evident. Experience is the only evidence. Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.”
- “Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.”
- “Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”
- “It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Encyclopedic overview
Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia. Politically, Laing was regarded as a thinker of the New Left. He has been theatrically portrayed by Mike Maran, Alan Cox, Billy Mack, and David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.
Laing's views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philosophy and ran counter to the chemical and electroshock methods that had become psychiatric orthodoxy. Laing took the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of personal experience rather than simply as symptoms of mental illness. Although associated in the public mind with the anti-psychiatry movement, he rejected the label. Laing regarded schizophrenia as the normal psychological adjustment to a dysfunctional social context.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “R. D. Laing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.